Natural hazards · Lakeport

Lakeport, TX natural hazards

Most of the natural-hazard damage FEMA expects in Lakeport comes from tornadoes, and overall the risk is low for a U.S. community.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 · OpenFEMA claims, aid & declarations

Expected damage

How exposed is Lakeport?

Low

vs. U.S. communities

FEMA expects yearly storm and flood damage to homes and buildings in Lakeport to be higher than in 27% of U.S. communities, mostly from tornadoes and inland flooding.

Tornadoes39%Inland flooding22%Cold waves10%Heat waves8%Strong wind6%Ice storms5%Everything else9%

By hazard

What Lakeport faces

Each hazard’s share of the damage FEMA expects here, and how that compares with the rest of the country.

Tornadoes

39% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 91% of U.S. places

Recorded about once every 44 years in the area

Inland flooding

22% of expected damage

Well below average · higher than 18% of U.S. places

Recorded about 2 times a year in the area

Cold waves

10% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 89% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Heat waves

8% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 83% of U.S. places

Recorded about 19 times a year in the area

Strong wind

6% of expected damage

Above average · higher than 71% of U.S. places

Recorded about 6 times a year in the area

Ice storms

5% of expected damage

Well above average · higher than 97% of U.S. places

Recorded about once a year in the area

Lower here

HurricanesHailWinter weatherWildfireEarthquakesLandslidesLightning

Not a risk here

Coastal floodingDroughtAvalanchesTsunamisVolcanic activity

Flood risk changes street by street. Check a specific address on FEMA’s flood map, and ask about flood insurance before you buy.

Flood insurance claims

Does Lakeport flood?

FEMA's records show no paid flood insurance claims in Lakeport.

of homes in flood zones
are insured

of all homes
are insured

No community discount. Lakeport isn’t in FEMA’s Community Rating System, which cuts flood insurance up to 45% in towns that do extra flood-proofing.

Insurance rates: Gregg County.

Disasters that hit Lakeport

Federal disasters declared here

None of the disasters declared for Gregg County shows FEMA aid or repair money reaching Lakeport itself in FEMA’s records.

Brought FEMA money into LakeportDeclared for Gregg County only

Gregg County has had 17 natural disasters declared since 1953, most often hurricanes and fires.

About these numbers

How to read this page

An average, not a forecastFEMA’s National Risk Index estimates the damage 18 kinds of natural hazards cause in a typical year, from decades of records and models. A quiet decade can follow a bad year.

Compared by rate“Higher than N%” compares yearly damage as a share of what’s here, so a big city isn’t rated riskier just for having more buildings. Lakeport is smaller than a census tract, so it shares the figures of the tract around its center.

Money that reached townFlood claims are matched to Lakeport’s own flood-insurance community; household aid to the registrant’s city; repair grants to the City of Lakeport. FEMA’s model follows property values, so a place that recently lost many homes can rate lower than it feels.

Sources: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025); OpenFEMA: NFIP redacted claims, multiple-loss properties, community status book and residential penetration rates, housing assistance (owners and renters), public assistance funded projects, hazard mitigation properties and disaster declarations. Census tracts: U.S. Census Bureau.